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Seasonal oscillation of liver-derived hibernation protein complex in the central nervous system of non-hibernating mammals. 2015
- The liver-derived hibernation protein (HP) complex, consisting of HP-20, HP-25 and HP-27, was shown to oscillate circannually, and this oscillation in the central nervous system (CNS) was suggested to play a role in hibernation.
Circannual control of hibernation by HP complex in the brain. 2006
- We have previously demonstrated a decrease in hibernation-specific protein (HP) complex in the blood of chipmunks during hibernation.
HNF-1 regulates the liver-specific transcription of the chipmunk HP-20 gene. 2001
- The chipmunk hibernation-specific protein HP-20 is a component of the 140 kDa complex that drastically decreases in the blood during hibernation, and its gene is expressed specifically in the liver.
hibernation protein overweight
dietary glycine overweight
Low Trp and very high glycine are shared by HP proteins and adiponectin
Multifarious Beneficial Effect of Nonessential Amino Acid, Glycine: A Review. 2017
- Dietary supplementation of proper dose of glycine is effectual in treating metabolic disorders in patients with cardiovascular diseases, several inflammatory diseases, obesity, cancers, and diabetes.
Growth promotion in pigs by oxytetracycline coincides with down regulation of serum inflammatory parameters and of hibernation-associated protein HP-27. 2016
- The growth promoting effect of supplementing animal feed with antibiotics like tetracycline has traditionally been attributed to their antibiotic character. However, more evidence has been accumulated on their direct anti-inflammatory effect during the last two decades. Here we used a pig model to explore the systemic molecular effect of feed supplementation with sub therapeutic levels of oxytetracycline (OTC) by analysis of serum proteome changes. Results showed that OTC promoted growth, coinciding with a significant down regulation of different serum proteins related to inflammation, oxidation and lipid metabolism, confirming the anti-inflammatory mechanism of OTC. Interestingly, apart from the classic acute phase reactants also down regulation was seen of a hibernation associated plasma protein (HP-27), which is to our knowledge the first description in pigs. Although the exact function in non-hibernators is unclear, down regulation of HP-27 could be consistent with increased appetite, which is possibly linked to the anti-inflammatory action of OTC. Given that pigs are good models for human medicine due to their genetic and physiologic resemblance, the present results might also be used for rational intervention in human diseases in which inflammation plays an important role such as obesity, type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular diseases.
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Gene expression and adaptive evolution of ZBED1 in the hibernating greater horseshoe bat (Rhinolophus ferrumequinum). 2016
Mammalian hibernators experience physiological extremes, e.g. ischemia, muscle disuse and hypothermia, which are lethal to non-hibernators, implying the existence of underlying mechanisms that allow hibernators to withstand these physiological extremes. Increased cell proliferation is suggested to be such a strategy, but its molecular basis remains unknown. In this study, we characterized the expression pattern of ZBED1 (zinc finger, BED-type containing 1), a transcription factor that plays a crucial role in regulating cell proliferation, in five tissues of the greater horseshoe bat (Rhinolophus ferrumequinum) during pre-hibernation, deep hibernation and post-hibernation. Moreover, we investigated the ZBED1 genetic divergence from individuals with variable hibernation phenotypes that cover all three known mtDNA lineages of the species. Expression analyses showed that ZBED1 is overexpressed only in brain and skeletal muscle, not in the other three tissues, suggesting an increased cell proliferation in these two tissues during deep hibernation. Evolutionary analyses showed that ZBED1 sequences were clustered into two well-supported clades with each one dominated by hibernating and non-hibernating individuals, respectively. Positive selection analyses further showed some positively selected sites and a divergent selection pressure among hibernating and non-hibernating groups of R. ferrumequinum. Our results suggest that ZBED1 as a potential candidate gene that regulates cell proliferation for hibernators to face physiological extremes during hibernation.
Comparative analysis of cell replacement in hibernators. 2010
- 1. Cell renewal in hibernators undergoes seasonal rhythm independent of the hibernation state. 2. We propose that seasonal depression of cell renewal in tissues of hibernators is caused by seasonal involution of thymus in these animals. 3. The latter is known to be involved in the control of cell proliferation. 4. The state of hibernation per se has also an effect on cellular proliferation. 5. It induces the block of cells in the permitotic phase. It is suggested that the blockage of cells in renewing tissues of hibernators under natural deep hypothermia throughout a period of torpidity represents the adaptive reaction of the organism.
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